Art and Design

Art and Design

Art Program

Education in the arts involves students intellectually, emotionally, socially, and physically. Learning through the arts therefore fosters integration of students’ cognitive, emotional, sensory, and motor capacities, and enables students with a wide variety of learning styles to increase their learning potential.

Arts education prepares students for the fast-paced changes and the creative economy of the twenty-first century. Learning through the arts develops many skills, abilities, and attitudes that are critical in the workplace – for example, communication and problem-solving skills; the ability to be creative, imaginative, innovative, and original; the ability to be adaptable and to work with others; and positive attitudes and behaviours.

At Webtree Academy, we offer a variety of art courses including Drama, Visual Arts, Media Arts and Visual Design courses to enrich student learning and enhance creativity.

Art and Design

Drawing & Painting

Drawing units are intended to provide the student with opportunities to further expand, explore and reflect on the elements and principles of drawing. Technical and observational drawing skills will be emphasized. Students will further explore conceptual and visual references through a reflection on historical and contemporary art while developing drawings that explore social, ecological and personal issues.

While studying Painting units, students will learn colour theory and painting techniques. Students will explore & respond to a variety of social, ecological, and personal issues through their own artwork and through the reflection on historical and contemporary art.

Art and Design
Art and Design

Sculpture

Students will learn about the history of sculptural techniques and study some art historical references from the oldest surviving artworks of sculpture to sculptures of our contemporary art world. Discussions will focus on cultural, political and historical significance of these artworks, and students will develop preliminary sketches and engaged practices toward creating a sculptural study of their own.

Students will develop works that contain a personal visual narratives from a variety of materials and stages in order to express a personal, cultural, historical themes. Students will then present and discuss their work in terms of techniques ancient to contemporary, personal narratives, cultural and historical reference.

Art and Design

Art History

Students will study cultural, historical, & socio-political movements in art from ancient times to popular contemporary culture and their relevant art references from around the world. Students will use the critical analysis process to deconstruct art works and explore connections between works of art in personal, contemporary, historical, socio-political, and cultural contexts.
Art and Design
Art and Design

Art Careers & Portfolios

In this unit students will research a career, analyze and deliver a presentation on the requirements and prospects for a variety of career opportunities related to the arts.

Students will look at their produced art works and learn about the appropriate standards and conventions for presenting creative disciplines for a variety of art career purposes. Talk about their work in terms of self-analysis on techniques and presentation and communication of ideas, artistic growth and understanding from a personal, cultural and historical reference.

There are many types of portfolios in the creative fields of studies. Visual Arts Portfolios are personal student portfolios that lead to demonstrating success, skills and ability toward a career development in the arts. The portfolio will demonstrate projects and activities, abilities, and possible employability of an individual’s completed Art and/ or Design artworks. These are samplings of the very best of an artist’s work to date and students will learn a variety of ways to present their works in a variety of professional formats.